Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 215
Land area (2000): 6.341272 sq. miles (16.423819 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.072417 sq. miles (0.187559 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 6.413689 sq. miles (16.611378 sq. km)
FIPS code: 61630
Located within: Alaska (AK), FIPS 02
Location: 68.347052 N, 166.762917 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 99766
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Point Hope
Wikipedia
Point Hope is a headland in the U.S. state of Alaska, located at the western tip of the Lisburne Peninsula. It lies on the Chukchi Sea coast, 40 miles southwest of Cape Lisburne, Arctic Slope at (68.347052, -166.762917). The city of Point Hope is located on the foreland.
The Inuit name for this cape was Tikarakh or Tikiqaq commonly spelled "Tiagara," meaning "forefinger".
The first recorded Europeans to sight this cape were Russian explorers Mikhail Vasiliev and Gleb Shishmaryov of the Imperial Russian Navy on the ships Otkrietie and Blagonamierennie. Vasiliev and Shishmaryov named the headland Mys Golovnina, after Vice Admiral Vasily Golovnin (1776–1831).
This cape was later renamed by Captain Frederick William Beechey of the Royal Navy, who wrote on August 2, 1826: "I named it Point Hope in compliment to Sir William Johnstone Hope". According to Archdeacon Stuck Sir William Hope hailed from a "well-known house long connected with the sea".